BRIEFING

BRIEFING; 2 Plead Guilty In Hasidic Melee

Published: May 8, 1985

Two Hasidic Jews have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from a melee between a large group of Hasidim and the police in Brooklyn in September 1983, the Brooklyn District Attorney's office said yesterday.

The police said the incident, in the Crown Heights area, began when a city bus nearly hit a couple leaving a synagogue after Succoth services and a man who was arrested for throwing a rock at the bus resisted being put in a police car because Orthodox Jews do not ride on that holiday.

The men who pleaded guilty, were indicted on felony assault charges in December 1983. As the result of plea agreements, one man, 26-year-old Eric Jacobs, pleaded guilty Monday to obstructing governmental administration, said Linda Sachs, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office. She said that the second man, Moshe Rubashkin, also 26, pleaded guilty Monday to that charge and to riot in the second degree and that both men would be sentenced to three years' probation and 300 hours of community service.